Posts tagged password

Answer 13
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Posted 10 months ago
I'm having a dilemma. You see, when my Mac was purchased it was booted up without me and I don't know if they(my dad) set up a password. How do I change my password without knowing it?
joulo asked

Boot it from the OS Install disc. Under the Utilities menu there’s a password reset tool. See Apple’s site. It applies to 10.6 as well.

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Posted 1 year ago
Is there a way of putting a password on folders on a macbook?
iwanteditlukewarm asked

Read here.

Answer 16
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Posted 2 years ago
Is it possible to password-protect regular folders on my machine?
(I am on Snow Leopard, and logged in as the admin, but I don't want to make other user accounts because I need to be logged in at all times.)
Anonymous asked

Hi-

Not in the sense that you double-click on a folder and it asks for a password. However, you can create an encrypted disk image that contains the information you want to protect. When someone double-clicks on the disk image, they’ll be prompted to enter a password to decrypt it. It’s actually quite a good way to keep track of passwords if you need to. I use one to keep track of important things in a spreadsheet like credit card numbers, their associated customer support numbers, website logins etc in case something happens to my wallet.

Information on doing this from Apple, here.